> Try programming for Xamarin, UWP, or anything involving multitargeting.

The complaints in the original article fell rather flat to me, but this is one area where it's absolutely fair to criticize VS. More generally, the reason that build tooling in the .net sphere is such a mess is because of historical baggage from VS.

With that said, if you're coloring within the lines[1], VS is very powerful and productive.

[1] To an extent. There definitely are use cases that are "supported" only in name.